O.J. Simpson died on Thursday at the age of 76, and the media didn&#8217;t quite know what to do.
They didn&#8217;t know what to do because O.J. Simpson was a murderer, and everyone knows he was a murderer. But he spent the last half of his life being treated by some in the media as though he was a sort of controversial figure.
A headline from the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-reports/how-will-oj-simpson-be-remembered/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Post</a> summed this up: “How will O.J. Simpson be remembered?”
The answer for everyone who remembers the O.J. Simpson murder trial is that he will be remembered as a person who very obviously murdered his ex-wife and a person named Ron Goldman, and then proceeded to be alleviated of the criminal responsibility for that double murder by a jury of people who were politically motivated, to the celebration of a wide swath of the American population.
He&#8217;ll be remembered as a person who dramatically widened the gap between the races in the United States, which, in some ways, has never truly closed. It seemed as though that between the trial of O.J. Simpson and the election of Barack Obama, America was becoming more racially reconciliatory. 
But Barack Obama opened those gaps wide again in 2010, 2011, and 2012.
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The O.J. Simpson trial was the moment when Americans realized that the attempts of the 1960s and 1970s to move beyond America&#8217;s terrible history of racism had some pretty impactful consequences, and that there were two sides to the racial conflict in the United States because up until the Civil Rights movement, there really was only one side.
That side had been American white supremacists treating black people as chattel and as trash. After the Civil Rights movement, the idea was that we would put all of that behind us. We were going to move forward in a country that tries to actually meet the guarantees of the Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal.
But then, in the O.J. Simpson trial, it became very clear to a lot of Americans that the standard of equal justice for all was not only a matter of if that could be reached, but it was also a matter of if everyone wanted that standard to be reached.
That&#8217;s what the O.J. Simpson trial meant for a lot of people. And that&#8217;s why he will be remembered as a double murderer who got away with it for racial political reasons.
Simpson left the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown in his wake. Not just that; he still owed more than $100 million to their families because they won civil trials against him after losing the criminal trial in favor of convicting him.
The evidence against O.J. was overwhelming. Everyone knew he was guilty. No one legitimately believed he was innocent. It was just a question of whether you wanted to see him acquitted because of racial reasons.
Those racial reasons were explained at the time and are being explained even now by people who believe that somehow, some sort of revenge was deserved for America&#8217;s terrible racial history.
After he killed two white people, suddenly his cause became a “racial cause.” And that racial logic has kept up even until today.
Marc Lamont Hill, a true believer in the perverse ideology of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), and critical race theory, <a href="https://twitter.com/marclamonthill/status/1778461905268412472" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a> yesterday, 
<blockquote>O.J. Simpson was an abusive liar who abandoned his community long before he killed two people in cold blood. His acquittal for murder was the correct and necessary result of a racist criminal legal system. But he&#8217;s still a monster, not a martyr.</blockquote>
So he acknowledges O.J. Simpson murdered two people in cold blood and was a monster, but he still deserved to be acquitted.
No country obviously can survive for very long on the basis that, as long as you are a member of a particular race, you deserve to be acquitted for murdering somebody else of another race in that sort of pure, unbridled hatred and racism. It wrecks societies.
The more faith you show in the political narrative, the more you&#8217;re willing to pick a bad example and say even it applies to your narrative. And O.J. is the worst example of all.
At the time of the trial, some black people and white people responded incredibly differently to the verdict.
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Even today, there are people who are trying to make excuses for why O.J. was acquitted because the real question is not really why O.J. did what he did. He was a sociopathic murderer who murdered two people in cold blood. The real question is why the legal system did what it did and why Americans reacted the way they did.
O.J. Simpson died a free man. The idea that there is some underlying question of justice with regard to O.J. Simpson that would have allowed for the moral imprimatur to be placed upon his acquittal is morally unrighteous foolishness.
O.J. Simpson was a double murderer. He should have gone to jail. And if you believe that questions of race should take precedence over questions of actual blood guilt, that makes you a bad person. That is not how justice works.
When social justice, which is what this is, trumps individual justice, when the idea is that a racial narrative — a true racial narrative about black victimhood in America —  is supposed to trump the fact that a black man killed two white people, you have lost the thread of decency and morality.
Justice cannot work under these circumstances.

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One <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california">California</a> school district&#8217;s rules on Critical Race Theory and transgender parental notification will remain in place, at least for now, a judge has ruled.
The Temecula Valley Unified School District south of Los Angeles prohibits schools from teaching certain elements of Critical Race Theory and requires schools to inform parents if their children ask to identify as a new gender.
A group of parents, students, and teachers sued over the policies, seeking a preliminary injunction to block their enforcement.
However, on Friday, Riverside Superior Court Judge Eric Keen denied that request.
The judge rejected the group&#8217;s claim that the school board&#8217;s ban on Critical Race Theory curriculum content was vague, pointing out that the policy prohibits specific elements of the ideology.
“It seems clear to the court that a person of ordinary intelligence would have a reasonable opportunity to know what is prohibited as what is prohibited is set out specifically in the resolution,” the judge wrote.
The judge also ruled said the district&#8217;s transgender notification policy “does not expressly single out transgender or gender-nonconforming students, as it applies to any student’s request to change their school official or unofficial records.”
An attorney for the plaintiffs said they plan to appeal the ruling “immediately.”
Some parents expressed their agreement with the judge&#8217;s decision.
“I wasn’t really surprised. I think that the justice system saw and said, ‘Hey, there’s nothing weird or funny here,’ but I know the trial has to continue and we’ll see how things go from here. But I think this is a huge win for parents,” <a href="https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/la-east/education/2024/02/26/temecula-valley-unified-can-keep-crt-ban-and-parental-rights-policies-for-now" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Dan Molina, a father to three students in the district.
The Temecula Valley school district, which is located south of Los Angeles, serves 28,000 students, the majority of whom are white or Hispanic.
“I do not believe that CRT or any racist ideology is a suitable educational framework for classroom instruction at the elementary and secondary level,” said Temecula Valley school board President Joseph Komrosky, one of the board members who voted for the policies.
Other California school districts have seen their policies on transgender notification challenged by Democrats at the state level.
The Chino Valley Unified School District just east of Los Angeles last year introduced a policy requiring schools to tell parents about student gender transitions.
In August, the California attorney general <a href="https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-announces-lawsuit-challenging-chino-valley-unified-school" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued</a> the Chino Valley district over the policy.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta is also formally <a href="https://edsource.org/2023/bonta-backs-motion-blocking-censorship-transgender-notification-in-temecula-schools/702456" target="_blank" rel="noopener">backing</a> the lawsuit against the Temecula Valley school district.
Since then, several other districts in the state have introduced nearly identical policies on transgender parental notifications.
At least one other California district, the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District has banned instruction on Critical Race Theory.

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What exactly does diversity, equity, and inclusion mean?
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is essentially Critical Race Theory boiled down to a friendlier piece of corporate boilerplate. It argues that if one demographic group is underrepresented in any particular industry or job, that must be the result of some sort of systemic discrimination or racism. Either everyone is equal in every possible way — which means, therefore, everyone should be equally represented in every industry — or everyone is unequal, which means you are a racist.
There is a halfway point between those two positions, which happens to be the truth: People of all races and all individuality differ in their genetics. They differ in their environments. They differ in their cultures. All individuals are different.
That means when you take a look at group averages, there are very few examples across all of humanity in which group averages are completely identical.
But DEI advocates assert we have to ignore that in favor of their proposition. Why?
Because DEI is a gun pointed directly at the heart of the meritocracy. The meritocracy suggests there should be objective metrics by which we succeed or fail, and the good news about meritocracy is that if you succeed, you are doing something better than someone else, which means that whatever you are doing is better for everyone else.
The DEI idea innately means that people who are unqualified are going to advance in life by dint of the fact they are considered a part of the victimized group. Why does this matter?
It occurs at universities where Asian Americans are discriminated against because they are too high-achieving in favor of people from other groups who have lower test scores.
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It takes place in the government when people completely unqualified for particular offices are appointed to those offices so as to establish some form of social justice.
And now, it’s happening in medicine — and that should frighten the living hell out of everyone because all you care about when you go to the doctor is: Is my doctor good at medicine? Is my doctor good at taking care of me and making sure I am healthy?
This is an area where meritocracy should be the only thing that counts.
Is my doctor likely to fix me, or is my doctor bad at their job and got appointed because of extraneous merits? All you care about when you get onto that surgical gurney is if the person operating on you should be good at that job.
But surgery is now being impacted by DEI. Apparently, Wake Forest Medical School is about to graduate Kychelle Del Rosario, a med student who injured a conservative patient and then bragged about it.
In March 2022, she tweeted, “I had a patient I was doing a blood draw on see my pronoun pin and laugh loudly to the staff, ‘She/Her? Well, of course it is. What other pronouns even are there? It?’ I missed his vein so he had to get stuck twice,” with a snorting emoji.
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2/ Sources tell me Wake Forest Medical School is about to graduate Kychelle Del Rosario – the med student who injured a conservative patient and bragged about it. Wake Forest allowed Rosario to lay low and take a voluntary leave of absence when this scandal broke. <a href="https://t.co/baTT9YNP6o">pic.twitter.com/baTT9YNP6o</a>
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That is an insane tweet. If somebody disagrees with you politically, then you make them actually suffer because you are in the position of the doctor?
University of Pennsylvania Health has hired Ewen Liu, Del Rosario&#8217;s classmate who also <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1762195998510563436" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a> that it seemed “karma-tic” when Del Rosario injured the patient who mocked her pronoun pin.
The basic idea that medical error is rooted in “karma,” that you deserve it if there is a medical error upon you because you have the wrong belief system (such as saying the actual scientific fact that there are men and there are women), is a serious, serious problem.
How about an award-winning Duke Surgical resident named Vignesh Raman? At an internal DEI lecture, Raman said that his heart sinks when he has patients who watch Fox News or wear MAGA hats. He also said:
<blockquote>I think the most important thing we&#8217;ve done is really systemic changes to our recruitment process to try to recruit diverse residents to our program and then to retain and support those diverse residents after they get to our program. So part of this has involved transitioning to [a] completely holistic review process that we spoke about earlier today, abandoning all sort of metrics and screens, looking at people&#8217;s life story and what brought them into surgery, and then the other part of it is increasing the diversity of the people who read the applications because that&#8217;s an important component of ensuring that we get diverse residents into our program.</blockquote>
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5/ This is the norm in medicine. Meet award-winning Duke surgical resident Vignesh Raman. At an internal DEI lecture, Raman says his &quot;heart sinks&quot; when he has patients who watch Fox News or wear MAGA hats. Then he celebrates having a majority &quot;non-white&quot; population to treat: <a href="https://t.co/Ti58CbxMgB">pic.twitter.com/Ti58CbxMgB</a>
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1762196003082350623?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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He’s saying they are ignoring metrics in order to look at the life story of the surgeon.
Here’s a question: When you have to go in for an open-heart surgery because you have a blockage in your artery, do you ask for the surgeon&#8217;s life story? Do you care about the surgeon&#8217;s life story? Should you care about the surgeon&#8217;s life story or do you care a lot more about whether this doctor has a good track record of making sure people who require a bypass actually get the bypass they need without dying on the table?
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It is insane for surgical residencies to take a look at people based on their life story as opposed to objective metrics of success. It&#8217;s totally crazy.
Raman also <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1762196008044290252/photo/1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>, “I would say, even for academic publications… I don&#8217;t want to amplify the work of white men who only collaborate with other white men.”
There go most of the modern medical advances in human history.
And by the way, that&#8217;s racism.
So, barring white men from getting into top-level surgical residencies as a corrective mechanism is now somehow good; put that pressure all the way down the system and what you&#8217;re ending up with is fewer qualified people who are entering the system and more unqualified people going to top medical schools.

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One of the beauties of life is the simple fact that no matter how stupid things get, reality always wins.
Whether your personal life or whether politics writ broadly, the simple fact of the matter is, eventually, you are going to run up against reality — and reality is going to win.
That doesn&#8217;t mean bad political ideas can&#8217;t emerge victorious in the short- or even the mid-term.
It does mean the realities of human nature, the realities of the world surrounding you, don&#8217;t just go away. And ultimately, those policies will fail dramatically. The dumber the policies, the faster they tend to fail.
One of those dumb ideas that has obviously taken center stage of late has been the dumb idea of woke.
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Woke is a foolish idea. Now, what exactly is wokeness? Wokeness is the basic idea that if there is any sort of disparity between group outcomes in American life, that group disparity is due to discrimination. The only corrective is, therefore, reverse discrimination or some form of discrimination that is going to equalize the outcomes of the various groups.
We have seen a wide variety of policies that have been implemented in order to close all of these gaps. The Quest for Cosmic Justice — as the great thinker of our time Thomas Sowell has put it — is a foolish quest. It is not something that can be solved because the reality is the vast majority of group gaps are either inborn or they are the result of culture and environment — because those are all the factors that there are.
That does not mean every result is the result of inborn differences. Differences in intellectual outcome very often are about educational or cultural differences as opposed to, for example, height differentials between particular groups; those are about genetics. This happens throughout life.
Looking at the rationales for why things are different in terms of outcomes between groups can be a good way of crafting good policy — but we&#8217;ve thrown all of that out in favor of stupidity. Now, we are going to educate our children in the stupidity, which does not reflect reality. We are seeing the results of that.
The <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/woke-kindergarten-glassbrook-hayward-18635504.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco Chronicle</a> reported on this:
<blockquote>A Hayward elementary school struggling to boost low test scores and dismal student attendance is spending $250,000 in federal money for an organization called Woke Kindergarten to train teachers to confront white supremacy, disrupt racism and oppression and remove those barriers to learning.
The Woke Kindergarten sessions train teachers on concepts and curriculum that’s available to use in classrooms with any of Glassbrook Elementary’s 474 students. The sessions are funded through a federal program meant to help the country’s lowest-performing schools boost student achievement. </blockquote>
The basic theory behind this program is that if you just teach kids self-esteem, they will magically become smarter and better performing. If you teach them about the radical injustices of the life they lead in the freest country in the history of the world, then they will magically perform better.
Only one problem: It fails because reality always wins.
The Chronicle continues, <a href="https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/woke-kindergarten-is-capitalism-at#:~:text=A%20Hayward%20elementary%20school%20struggling,remove%20those%20barriers%20to%20learning" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a>:
<blockquote>But two years into the three-year contract with Woke Kindergarten, a for-profit company, student achievement at Glassbrook has fallen, prompting some teachers to question whether the money was well spent given the needs of the students, who are predominantly low-income. Two-thirds of the students are English learners and more than 80% are Hispanic/Latino. </blockquote>
This is not a particular shock because woke kindergarten is a stupid idea. Teaching kids terrible ideas is likely to make them perform worse, not better. District officials defended the program, saying the kindergarten did what it was hired to do.
That&#8217;s true, albeit not in the way they intended. They made the scores lower. It made things worse.
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One of the most amazing attributes of the nonprofit world, and this is true virtually across the board, is that nonprofits are constantly exacerbating the problems they are supposed to fight so they can raise money to fight those problems.
This happens all the time in nonprofit land. One of the jobs of politically motivated people on the Left is to exacerbate inequalities so as to claim inequity.
That is the goal. Because if at any point those inequalities actually narrowed as a result of freedom and good incentive structures, then what would they do for a living?

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An agency of Nashville, Tennessee’s city government created to promote the arts has set out to allocate taxpayer-funded grants on the basis of race, hoping to leverage their funding to achieve “anti-racist outcomes.”
The Metro Nashville Arts Commission’s director, Daniel Singh, outlined his goal to encourage “anti-racist outcomes” through the use of arts grants, hoping to return “land, money and narrative resources to Indigenous, African and Asian peoples within the ‘cultural community,’” an investigation from <a href="https://pamphleteer.co/post/exclusive-metro-arts-launches-initiative-to-return-land-money-and-resources-to-indigenous-african-and-asian-peoples/#continue-reading%23continue-reading">The Pamphleteer</a>, a local Nashville media outlet, revealed.
Singh’s vision for the <a href="https://www.nashville.gov/departments/arts">Metro Nashville Arts Commission</a> was articulated in a presentation called “What Could An Anti Racist Cultural Planning Process Look Like.”
The presentation endorsed the tenets of Critical Race Theory and the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) agenda, even claiming that “‘Race’, ‘the arts’, and ‘white people’ emerged at a similar point in history and worked together to facilitate the development of colonial and imperialism.”
One slide of the presentation, titled “Example Principles of Antiracist Strategies,” explains that the Metro Arts should seek to destabilize the “Pan European project of Whiteness” and “disrupt the invisibility of Whiteness” by disempowering “art forms that maintain frames of European Supremacy.”
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Another slide, called “Metro Arts’ Equity Framework” clearly articulates the commission’s intent to give out taxpayer money to grantees on the basis of their race in order to “deeply disrupt systemic inequities.”
“Metro Arts&#8217; is committed to consistently meeting criteria for antiracist reform, centering People of the Global Majority in decision-making, material benefit, and distribution of resources,” the slide reads.
The presentation was created in conjunction with Hillombo LLC, a Pennsylvania-based <a href="http://hillombo.net/services/">consulting organization</a> that uses “critical pedagogy …. Marxism, and Critical Race Theory” to create an alternative to the “white racial frame.”
While the commission asks grant applicants whether or not their organization qualifies as “BIPOC-led,” Metro Legal Director Wally Dietz has stated that the commission asks “for demographic purposes, not for the purpose of prioritizing certain applicants” when asked if Metro Arts could be hit with Title VI lawsuits.
The revelations come as millions of dollars worth of operating grants from the Commission have not been dispersed to grantees, with Singh <a href="https://nashvillebanner.com/2023/12/07/update-still-no-answers-from-metro-arts-on-unpaid-grants/?ref=pamphleteer.co">unwilling</a> to explain why the grants remain unpaid.
Last month, Metro Nashville stated that it would <a href="https://www.tba.org/?pg=LawBlog&amp;blAction=showEntry&amp;blogEntry=100407">audit</a> the Arts Commission.

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The National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT) was hit with a <a href="https://donoharmmedicine.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2024.01.10-Doc-1-Verified-Complaint.pdf">lawsuit</a> from Do No Harm, an organization that opposes the politicization of medicine, over a scholarship program that discriminates against white people.
The suit from <a href="https://donoharmmedicine.org/">Do No Harm</a>, filed this week, <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/no-harm-sues-national-association-210900136.html">alleges</a> that the association violated federal law by barring white applicants from a “diversity scholarship” set up to award $1,250 to four students studying to become emergency medical technicians. The scholarship has been <a href="https://www.naemt.org/initiatives/diversity-and-inclusion/diversity-scholarships">removed</a> from the organization’s website following the lawsuit’s filing.
&#8220;The National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians is given the important responsibility of training America&#8217;s first responders,&#8221; said Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, Chairman of Do No Harm.&#8221;Like all aspects of healthcare, training the best and brightest to provide the best care for patients should be the primary concern of all medical organizations, not the skin color of an EMT.”
The suit specifically <a href="https://donoharmmedicine.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2024.01.10-Doc-1-Verified-Complaint.pdf">contends</a> that since the scholarship is legally designated as a contract, barring white students on the basis of their race violates the Civil Rights Act of 1866, with Do No Harm representing an anonymous white student who is about to start classes to become an EMT.
The suit from Do No Harm, which has grown to over 6,000 members since launching in April 2022, <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/no-harm-sues-national-association-210900136.html">seeks</a> a “permanent injunction barring NAEMT from continuing the program,” as well as a “a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction barring NAEMT from closing the application period, selecting scholarship recipients, or enforcing the racially discriminatory eligibility criteria.”
The association declined to comment on the lawsuit, telling The Daily Wire it can &#8220;not comment on legal matters.”
The lawsuit comes as institutions across America, ranging from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/apple-entrepreneur-camp-program-bars-applicants-based-on-race">multi-billion dollar corporations</a> to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvards-diversity-hire-president-finally-resigns-is-this-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-dei">Ivy League universities</a>, embrace the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) agenda, often attempting to justify acts of racial discrimination.
The DEI agenda has gained currency in the health field under the banner of “health equity,” which applies the doctrines of Critical Race Theory to the medical field.
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/national-institutes-of-health-to-spend-1-4-million-for-anti-racist-healing-in-nature-study">revealed</a> that the National Institutes of Health even allocated more than a million taxpayer dollars to a study on “anti-racist healing in nature,” which offered free trips to the California redwoods as part of a “health equity” initiative. The study alleged that nature can be “unwelcoming, unsafe, or triggering for people of color,” and only allowed those who identify as “a person from the latine/x/o, Black, Pacific Islander, and/or Filipinx community” to participate in the government-funded study.
Meanwhile, a major journal on health policy and research held a “<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/health/2022/11/01/healthy-equity-fellowship-health-journal-discriminates-against-white-applicants/">health equity</a>” fellowship that barred white applicants on the basis of their race, and major universities hold “anti-racism” trainings that embrace the doctrines of Critical Race Theorists like Robin DiAngelo.
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Dr. Stanley Goldfarb <a href="https://twitter.com/one1iron?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@one1iron</a> of <a href="https://twitter.com/donoharm?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@donoharm</a> warned against the approach:
“Health equity means the way to overcome the oppression in the health arena is to guarantee equal outcomes between the oppressor class, primarily white males, and the oppressed class, primarily blacks.”
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Do No Harm has taken a stand against efforts to embed Critical Race Theory into the health field, seeking to “protect healthcare from the disastrous consequences of identity politics.”
Goldfarb reaffirmed the importance of the organization’s suit against NAEMT, contending that “First responders and all medical professionals should be given opportunities, training, and scholarships on the basis of merit.&#8221;

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An analysis of twenty years of academic literature found that there is little or no evidence that minorities are mistreated by the criminal justice system when it comes to punishment, despite assertions to the contrary by policymakers, media, and academics.
“In recent years it has become common belief within the scholarly community as well as the general public that the criminal justice system is biased due to race and class issues. We sought to examine this with meta-analysis. Our results suggest that for most crimes, criminal adjudication in the US is not substantially biased on race or class lines,” professors <a href="https://www.stetson.edu/other/faculty/christopher-ferguson.php">Christopher J. Ferguson</a> and Sven Smith of Stetson University found in a study to be published in the criminology journal Aggression and Violent Behavior and obtained by The Daily Wire.
“Overall, this is a cause for optimism,” researchers concluded—though their findings also called into question the honesty and rigor of the work conducted by race-fueled scholars, whose weaknesses were highlighted this month in former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ap-blasted-for-article-labeling-plagiarism-as-new-conservative-weapon-in-wake-of-claudine-gay-resignation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard president Claudine Gay</a>.
As a meta-analysis, the study did not create a new dataset on criminal sentencing and race, but rather examined 51 studies conducted by others looking at the question since 2005. The numbers suggesting no or marginal racial bias in punishment were therefore collected by the existing studies, but those authors often claimed to have found racial bias in their writings, even when their numbers did not back it up.
“We express the concern that evidence for racial bias in the U.S. criminal justice system has been consistently weak, and that scholarly narratives have too often ignored this in favor of the systemic racism narrative,” Ferguson and Smith wrote.
Some of the studies found no evidence of racism in criminal sentencing and said so clearly, but their findings were simply ignored by the media, politicians, and other academics, who at times did not acknowledge a single paper dissenting from their hypothesis in their citations.
“At present, we believe that the evidence on racial bias in criminal justice adjudication has been poorly communicated to the general public and policymakers. In many cases, it appears that data calling into question beliefs in structural racism in the criminal justice system are simply being ignored, both by scholars in the field and by policy makers,” the new paper said.
When combining the 51 studies, the numbers “did not reach evidentiary standards to support the hypothesis that race or class are predictive of criminal adjudication” when it comes to all crime types, violent crimes, or juvenile crimes. For drug crimes, “small disparities were found… suggesting that race/ethnicity is associated with between 1.6 to 1.8% of the variance in criminal adjudication” among blacks and Hispanics facing drug charges, versus whites&#8211;a percentage so small that policy discussions focused on it are unlikely to solve any problems.
“There was no evidence of a class effect, and Asians actually received more favorable treatment during criminal adjudication than Whites, albeit not at a level that met our evidentiary standard,” the paper said.
Scholars determined to find racial bias were often able to claim to have made a statistically significant finding because court records allow for studies to include tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of cases. In science, the threshold for “statistical significance” is a balance between how big the effect is and how many examples were included in the study. In studies with huge amounts of criminal cases, even the most minute differences in criminal sentences can technically be called “significant.” But in the common meaning of the word, a years-long prison term being a few days shorter or longer, on average, for different race or class groups is not actually significant, and is essentially “noise” in the data set, the paper said.
Among other signs of biased or poorly done science, race researchers often did not “pre-register” their studies by laying out in advance their hypothesis and what they would do to determine if it was true or not. That meant that if their initial methodology found no evidence of racism, they could simply slice and dice the data in different ways until they found some way in which they could claim vindication. (Ferguson and Smith’s meta-analysis was pre-registered.)
Such researchers also did not set out in advance what kind of numbers would be required to show that the criminal justice system is racist. “Put simply: it is helpful to know what data we’d expect to see if the theory is wrong and what the threshold for rejecting the theory might be. Without such clear guidelines, theories may persist endlessly despite having weak evidence,” Ferguson and Smith wrote.
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A prior meta-study looking for racial bias in juvenile criminal sentences, for example, also found no statistically significant evidence of racism. Yet the Northeastern University professor who was its lead author, writing in the <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S004723521630023X" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Journal of Criminal Justice</a>, did not make that finding the paper’s takeaway. Instead, he disputed his own evidence, writing: “However, simple claims that race does not matter are also not supported by existing knowledge,” concluding the situation was “nuanced,” because, in certain sub-categories, the numbers differed slightly by race—even though if racism were actually to blame, such factors would be across the board, and all in one direction.
“Overall, the criminal justice system appears to be remarkably neutral, at least as relates to these issues, either when compared to the historical US criminal justice system, or historical systems throughout history,” the authors of the new study found.
They said that progressive academics who misrepresent their own data — whether due to incompetence, the prioritization of ideology over social science, or the desire to publish a paper with a dramatic finding — may be causing real harm to society.
“We note the possibility that overstating the case for sentencing disparities may itself cause harm to minority communities through increasing racial discord, creating fear and mistrust, and reducing community cooperation with criminal justice authorities, which may lead to the experiencing of more crime,” the paper said.

African American in Prison

Mega-Study Finds That Minorities Don’t Receive Harsher Criminal Punishments, But That Academics Said So Anyway

Academia

Crime

Academics and activists teamed up to create a guide to teaching Critical Race Theory (CRT) to young children, arguing that kids exhibit racial bias from as young as three years old.
Titled “Reflections on Children’s Racial Learning,” the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vIT1QaoaCcF9rH-yfRmzfan94VS-iZfi/view">guide</a> was created by a leftist organization called <a href="https://www.embracerace.org/about">EmbraceRace</a>, and shares strategies to effectively inculcate liberal beliefs on race among young children. It was written in part by professors at prominent universities such as the University of North Carolina and Wake Forest University, who urge parents to have &#8220;courageous conversations about race&#8221; with their toddlers.
“Children will ‘naturally’ grow up to be non-racist adults only when they live in a non-racist society. Until then, adults must guide children’s anti-racist development,” the guide argues, adding that &#8220;we have far to go before the US can be considered a ‘non-racist society.’” It also claimed that “by about 3-4 years old … white children generally show clear pro-White biases.”
EmbraceRace, the organization behind the guide, <a href="https://www.embracerace.org/about">claims</a> that “children’s racial sensibilities begin to form in infancy” and that kids “develop racial and other biases by kindergarten.” EmbraceRace bemoans that most “racial learning” doesn’t take place until middle or high school, and exists to provide resources for “early and elementary childhood educators.”
The guide was slammed by parent’s rights activists who oppose the politicization of education.
&#8220;Any individual or group trying to claim babies can be &#8216;racist&#8217; has ceded any pretense to be taken seriously. At three-and four-years-old, children should be learning their numbers, letters, and basic social skills, not racially charged content that is being pushed on them by radical organizations looking to enrich themselves through race-baiting,” said Michele Exner, the Senior Adviser at Parents Defending Education, a grassroots <a href="https://defendinged.org/">organization</a> opposed to Critical Race Theory and gender theory in America’s schools.
The push to teach Critical Race Theory (CRT) to young children comes amid a wider national battle over the ideology and its presence in American schools. The doctrine has been found in K-12 schools across the country, where educators have taught children that America is systematically racist, white people enjoy privilege on account of their race, and that differences in outcomes between groups can be attributed to bigotry and discrimination.
Conservative <a href="https://christopherrufo.com/p/crt-briefing-book">activists</a> and politicians have mounted an opposition to the ideology, barring schools from teaching it in at least <a href="https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/map-where-critical-race-theory-is-under-attack/2021/06">18 different states</a>.
The guide from EmbraceRace addresses the conservative pushback to CRT, characterizing it as a force of “racial regression” that has managed to successfully “capture the headlines” before saying that a “color-brave countercurrent is gathering momentum!”
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The guide also doubles down on its support of CRT, stating that “recent eruptions about ‘critical race theory’ make clear that the work of educators to engage children in honest, constructive learning about race and racism is far from over — and more vital than ever.”
It goes on to offer specific ways in which parents and teachers alike can most effectively push CRT on young children. In a portion of the report subtitled, “‘They’re Not Too Young To Talk About Race:’ The Science of Early Racial Learning,” an activist with EmbraceRace argues that “racial biases are often formed by the preschool and kindergarten years,” going on to point to a development chart that went viral on the organization’s social media accounts and claims that “silence about race reinforces racism.”
Other activists shared their methods of inculcating CRT in children, with an organization called “We Are” discussing the “anti-racist summer camps” that they’ve held since 2016.
“One of our approaches to dismantling systemic racism in education is offering summer camps for children in rising 1st &#8211; 5th grade,” the guide reads. “In these camps we have trained anti-racist educators helping children build healthy racial identities by teaching them about race, racism, its impact on communities, and how to actively resist racism in our communities.”
An entry from Dr. Michael Rizzo, an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, argues that children should be taught about structural racism as part of a broader plan for parents to raise “anti-racist children.”
One portion of the guide, titled “New Directions for Anti-Racism Research: White Children’s Understanding of Structural Racism,” reads “research points toward teaching about structural racism as a way to promote more antiracist worldviews in early childhood.” 
Another entry in the guide, called “Nurturing Children’s Racial Learning One Talk at a Time,” was written by academics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Wake Forest University. The portion urges parents to prepare their children to “handle racialized moments and be change agents in their environments” by having “courageous conversations about race.&#8221;
EmbraceRace, the non-profit behind the guide, is funded by the <a href="https://www.proteusfund.org/about/">Proteus Fund</a>, a massive funding apparatus for leftist groups in pursuit of “racial, gender, queer, and disability justice&#8221; as well as &#8220;an inclusive, fully-representative democracy.” The Amherst, Massachusetts-based fund <a href="http://www.proteusfund.org/wp-content/uploads/PROTEUS-FUND-INC-Final-990-For-Public-Viewing.pdf">received</a> a whopping $178 million in contributions from 2017 to 2021 and its president, a white man named Paul Di Donato, was paid more than $290,000 in 2021.
Di Donato is a <a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?contributor_name=paul+di+donato&amp;contributor_employer=PROTEUS+FUND">prolific donor</a> to Democrat candidates and causes, including the presidential campaigns of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Elizabeth Warren, as well as the campaigns of Senators John Fetterman, Raphael Warnock, and Jon Ossoff, among others.
Parents Defending Education&#8217;s Exner said the guide was &#8220;a joke&#8221; that “should not be taken seriously by any professional connected to children&#8217;s education.&#8221;
“Over the past three years, the proof we have seen is that DEI and CRT initiatives have been complete disasters and do not belong in schools,&#8221; Exner said.

Classroom

Academics Call For Critical Race Theory To Be Taught In Kindergarten, Warn Of Racist 3 Year Olds

Congressional Republicans unveiled legislation on Tuesday that would establish a new office tasked with enforcing the ban on affirmative action and strip federal funding from universities that engage in racial discrimination.
Titled the College Admissions Accountability Act, the legislation from Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) and Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) would create a special inspector general’s office within the Department of Education to enforce the Supreme Court’s ruling on Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, which found that considering race in the admissions process violates the 14th Amendment.
The proposed legislation, which was first <a href="https://freebeacon.com/policy/republicans-propose-new-office-to-enforce-affirmative-action-ban/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> by the Free Beacon, comes as several universities have indicated that they may not comply with the Supreme Court’s ruling. &#8220;Following the Court&#8217;s ruling, several American colleges and universities issued statements or unveiled new policies at odds with its letter and spirit,&#8221; the legislation states. &#8220;Institutions of higher education, including their offices of admission, must comply with the Constitution and laws of the United States, as interpreted by the judiciary.&#8221;
Columbia Law School initially stated that they would require applicants to submit a video as part of their application in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling before backtracking after critics noted it might be &#8220;a willful effort to evade the requirements of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.&#8221;
Other institutions responded to the ruling by <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/admissions/traditional-age/2023/08/02/colleges-change-essay-prompts-after-affirmative-action" target="_blank" rel="noopener">modifying their essay prompts</a> to inquire about applicant’s “cultural background” and “lived experience,” as well as their beliefs on diversity and inclusion. Some universities, like Babson College and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst admitted that the prompts were created in direct response to the ban on affirmative action.
&#8220;Every student in America is entitled to equal protection under the law, regardless of their background,&#8221; Vance <a href="https://freebeacon.com/policy/republicans-propose-new-office-to-enforce-affirmative-action-ban/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contended</a> before adding &#8220;This bill creates the means necessary to enforce the Court&#8217;s decision and hold colleges and universities accountable for illegal discrimination on the basis of race.&#8221;
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In addition to creating the Office of the Special Inspector General for Unlawful Discrimination in Higher Education, the legislation would also pull federal funding from universities that violate the Supreme Court’s ruling and engage in racial discrimination. The potential punishments would also address discrimination in “financial aid determinations” and “academic programs.”
The office created by the legislation would exist separately from the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, giving applicants and employees a new means by which to file discrimination claims.
&#8220;The federal government has given the universities free rein to discriminate against white and Asian students” remarked Chris Rufo, the conservative activist who spearheaded the fight against Critical Race Theory and now serves as a trustee at the New College of Florida. &#8220;Senator Vance&#8217;s proposed legislation will put a stop to this.&#8221;

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Republicans Unveil Legislation To Enforce Affirmative Action Ban, Strip Funding From Universities That Discriminate

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The University of Minnesota is instructing students on how to be “anti-racists” through its public health department, according to training material obtained by The Daily Wire through an open records request.
The public university is putting students through &#8220;Anti Racism 101,&#8221; the records show, with the School of Public Health instructing students that &#8220;racism&#8221; is the combination of &#8220;prejudice&#8221; with &#8220;power,&#8221; and &#8220;a system of advantages based on race,&#8221; rather than simply hatred or prejudice against someone because of their race. It also claims that there are four different types of racism, including “internalized,” “interpersonal,” “systemic,” and “institutional.”
The slideshow presentation also included a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvIO2GU8yTU">video</a> on “white fragility” that claims “racism is the status quo” of “all white settler colonialist societies” and features Critical Race Theorist Robin DiAngelo, who coined the term and uses it to describe “a type of everyday white racial control.”
That was all included in a November 9 workshop which began with a land acknowledgment, apologizing that, “The School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities — and, in fact, most of our homes — are situated on the ancestral land of the Dakota people,” it said. “We acknowledge the ongoing debt that is owed to the Dakota people.”
Medical experts say this illustrates how Critical Race Theory is being injected into the realm of public health, which needlessly politicizes medicine by labeling racial groups as &#8220;oppressors&#8221; and &#8220;oppressed.&#8221; Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, a former dean at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, says that the entire idea of &#8220;health equity&#8221; derived from Critical Race Theory can have dangerous consequences for patients.
“The health equity component of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is one of the tactics derived from Critical Race Theory,” said Dr. Goldfarb, who now operates <a href="https://donoharmmedicine.org/">Do No Harm</a>, a nonprofit that opposes the politicization of medical care. “‘Health equity’ means that the way to overcome the oppression in the health arena is to guarantee equal outcomes between the oppressor class, primarily white males, and the oppressed class, primarily blacks.”
“The problem with this construct is that it denies agency to black individuals and denies free will to white individuals&#8221; while erroneously arguing that &#8220;disparity of health outcomes is due to the efforts of an oppressor class,&#8221; Dr. Goldfarb explained, adding that it will &#8220;undermine the physician/patient relationship by emphasizing racial characteristics rather than individual characteristics.&#8221;
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But the University of Minnesota&#8217;s “Anti Racism 102” training even takes the conversation beyond race, delving into “Intersectionality and Compounding Oppression,” listing off “ableism,” “heterosexism,” “Islamophobia,” and even “fatphobia.”
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It’s followed by a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqoFsqOJYCg">video</a> in which blind people discuss their understandings of racism, with one person stating “I am racist, because I think every white person is racist” and “I benefit from capitalism, which was built on slavery and racism.”
A slide in the presentation titled “racism and public health” goes on to claim that racism is a “public health emergency,” before going on to discuss “antiracism” more broadly, seemingly encouraging participants to identify “your own role in racism and racist systems” and to create “race conscious/equity focused policies and practices.”
A separate training for the broader university, titled “Teaching and Learning at a Predominantly White Institution” and held on October 27th, warned that “colorblindness” and “objectivity” are assumptions of “whiteness.” It also defined predominantly white institutions as a school where the majority of students are white, as well as an environment where “embedded institutional practices that are based in whiteness.”
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A slide on intersectionality calls the concept “a theory of multiple marginalization drawn from the experiences and expertise of women of color.”
A representative of the University of Minnesota told The Daily Wire that the training sessions are voluntary, and that “views and perspectives expressed in educational settings on campus are not necessarily those of the institution.” But the University of Minnesota has a history of pushing the DEI agenda in its academic curriculum, research opportunities, and training sessions, both in the School of Public Health and throughout the university.
The School of Public Health also has a <a href="https://www.sph.umn.edu/research/hewg/concentration/history-health-equity-minor/">Health Equity</a> minor where graduate students can “specialize in studying health disparities and inequalities,” as well as the “structural factors that cause health inequalities.” Enrollment in the program has consistently spiked since 2020, surging from 11 to 26 students.
While students are being taught about health disparities through the lens of Critical Race Theory and health equity, Goldfarb contends that &#8220;Virtually all the studies of health disparities attribute a component to racism without providing any specific evidence to support those contentions.&#8221;
“The evidence for these assertions however is simply not there,&#8221; Goldfarb stated, pointing out that the origin of health disparities is &#8220;much more complex than simply the results of poor housing or bias on the part of physicians,&#8221; ranging from &#8220;behavioral factors such as smoking, alcohol use, diets leading to obesity, and failure to access available health services&#8221; to &#8220;certain genetic determinants of health outcomes.&#8221;
Meanwhile, the School of Public Health appears to have adopted the &#8220;antiracism&#8221; agenda wholesale, publishing a “<a href="https://www.sph.umn.edu/sph/wp-content/uploads/docs/sph-antiracist-strategic-plan.pdf">Strategic Plan for Antiracism</a>” that seeks to “create an actionable plan grounded in our deep commitment to social justice” with a “specific antiracist focus that centers the experiences of Black, Indigenous, and people of color.”
It goes on to state “BIPOC groups are forced to assimilate and navigate a system that centers whiteness,” also arguing, “consistent, tireless antiracism is and must always be the foundation of our DEI work.”
But the institution has also injected Critical Race Theory throughout the broader university community. The University of Minnesota was even hit with a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/university-of-minnesota-restricts-white-students-from-research-program-hit-with-civil-rights-complaint">civil rights complaint</a> earlier this year over a “multicultural” research program that offered applicants a $6,000 stipend and was open to those “who identify as a student of color of Native American” but not white students.
The university’s School of Social Work also hosted a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/university-of-minnesota-offers-lecture-teaching-12-step-aa-type-program-to-recover-from-being-white">webinar series</a> on “deconstructing and decentralizing whiteness,” complete with a 12-step program on “Recovery from White Conditioning.”
“We admitted that we had been socially conditioned by the ideology of white supremacy,” one of the steps reads, while another states. “We committed ourselves to ongoing study of our racial biases, conscious or unconscious, and our maladaptive patterns of white supremacist thinking.”

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University Of Minnesota Pushes Critical Race Theory As Public Health With ‘Anti-Racism’ Trainings

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The National Security Agency, responsible for monitoring threats both foreign and domestic for the U.S. military, assumed a new responsibility under the Biden administration — creating a massive glossary of woke terms for employees, ranging from “anti-racist” to the gender-neutral pronouns “ze” and “zir.”
A copy of the <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/NSA-DEI-GLOSSARY-WM-FINAL.pdf">NSA’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Glossary</a> obtained and verified by The Daily Wire shows the agency now provides definitions for terms such as “queer theory” and “white fragility,” as part of its expansive guide to 327 social justice terms that blame “white Europeans” for engaging in “settler colonialism” and warn of “transmisogyny.”
The 34-page document, published internally on May 6th, 2022, but never released publicly before The Daily Wire’s investigation, pushes blatantly left-wing views on race and sex. It explicitly endorses the tenets of Critical Race Theory and Queer Theory, both of which are included as terms on the glossary.
The leaked, unclassified NSA document identifies itself as a “a glossary of terms and language commonly used in dialogue regarding diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice” and cites radical Critical Race Theory educators such as Robin DiAngelo and Ibram X. Kendi.
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It cites DiAngelo while defining the term “white fragility” as “the state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves [in white people].” It adds “these behaviors … function to reinstate white racial equilibrium.”
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There’s also “whiteness,” which the agency defines as a “broad social construction that embraces the white culture, history, ideology, racialization, expressions, experiences, epistemology, emotions and behaviors,” all in order to reap “material political, economic, and structural benefits for those socially deemed white.”
But the agency, which has been sharply criticized for its mass surveillance operations on American citizens, goes beyond openly endorsing the extreme tenets of Critical Race Theory with its glossary — it pushes queer theory as an approach that “critically deconstructs and challenges binaries such as male and female or heterosexual and homosexual.”
The DEI glossary goes on to list a plethora of different vocab words associated with queer theory like “transmisogyny,” which it defines as the “intersection of transphobia and misogyny.”
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“Ze” and “zir,” meanwhile, are noted as “gender neutral pronouns that can be used instead of he/she” and “his/her,” while “two spirit,” is defined as a “Native American term for individuals who identify as both male and female.”
Other terms defined in the glossary include “genderqueer,” “AFAB/AMAB: Assigned Female At Birth, Assigned Male At Birth,” “Latinx,” and “same gender loving,” a term that serves as “a description for homosexuals” who think that terms such as gay and lesbian “carry negative connotations.”
There’s also “demigender” — with variations such as“demiboy” and “demigirl” included — defined as “having a partial connection to one or more genders.”
A member of the House Intelligence Committee who viewed the document says he was shocked at the level of indoctrination within one of our most powerful military agencies.
“I just can&#8217;t overemphasize how shocking this is,” Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL), a combat-decorated U.S. Army veteran who fought in the elite Green Berets, told The Daily Wire. “I’m a member of the Intelligence Committee in the House and it is an authentic document.”
“This isn’t some kind of diversity document, with terms like white fragility and definitions of whiteness and ‘ze’ and ‘zir’ in, say, the Small Business Administration,” Waltz said. “This is the NSA, the National Security Agency, one of the most powerful agencies in the world, that the world has ever seen.”
The glossary also works to undermine the very founding of the United States, blasting America’s founders in its definition of “settler colonialism: “Settler colonialism typically includes oppressive governance … and enforcement of codes of superiority,” before charging “examples include white European occupation of land in what is now the United States.”
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While the NSA charges that “white Europeans” are guilty of colonization, it goes on to define “decolonize” as a process that “requires a recognition of systems of oppression” in order to unlearn “values, beliefs, and conceptions, that have caused physical, emotional, or mental harm to people through colonization.”
“White privilege,” meanwhile, is defined as an “unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements, benefits, and choices bestowed on people solely because they are white.” It adds that white people benefit from “societal structuring that prioritizes white people and whiteness” and offers an additional definition for the term “overprivileged.”
The NSA adopts one of the core tenets of Critical Race Theory, that racism is institutional and systemic, with its definition for “white supremacy,” which it calls a “historically-based, institutionally-perpetuated system of exploitation of continents, nations, and people of color by white people and nations of the European continent.”
But the NSA goes on to promote this view more blatantly when it gives definitions for five different types of racism: cultural, structural, institutional, individual, and internalized. The glossary says that institutional racism creates “advantages for whites and oppression and disadvantages for … people of color.”
The NSA also claims that structural racism is a “feature of the social, economic, and political systems in which we all exist,” calling it the “most profound and pervasive form of racism.”
There’s also a definition for the word “Euro-Centric,” which states “most use this term with a clear awareness of the historic oppressiveness of Eurocentric tendencies in U.S. and European society,” it reads.
The phrase “Critical Race Theory” is even included on the list itself, with references to the “intersectionality of race and racism,” the “marginalization of people of color,” and its supposed aim pose a “challenge to dominant ideology.”
The document also includes a wide array of terms that promote gender ideology, featuring “drag queen/king” and “passing privilege,” which explains that there is a “variation in the degree to which medically and/or socially transitioned people are recognized as their correct gender,” and that this comes with “levels of privilege.” Those who are not gay or trans, meanwhile, are said to have “heterosexual privilege.”
“Gender binary” is defined as “the idea that there are only two genders.” It goes on to say “This idea is challenged by those who identify as non-binary,” including “genderqueer” and “agender.”
The glossary not only defines words, but also attempts to steer readers away from terms that are now “problematic.” The definition of “female-bodied,” for example, explains that the “term is very problematic as it genders bodies nonconsensually and plays into cissexism (in that breasts or a vulva, for example, are considered inherently female.)” The term “male-bodied” is also included alongside a similar note.
The definition of “gender affirming surgery” notes that “sex change” is  “an outdated and often offensive term.” Also problematic, according to the guide, is the term “homosexual” — “This is not a preferred term. Homosexual males typically prefer the term gay and homosexual females typically prefer the term lesbian.”
“MTF” and “FTM,” according to the glossary, are abbreviations for those who were “assigned” as male or female at birth,  but then attempted to transition into the opposite sex. But the NSA document extends even farther into gender ideology and claims that those two terms are also potentially “problematic.” It goes on to promote the alternative terms “MTM” and “FTF” – terms are used to identify “a transgender individual who has medically transitioned and feels their birth sex was never an identity to which they could relate.”
“A person with a birth sex of female may have lived as a female for many years but never identified as a woman,” it continues.
“Pansexual” is said to refer to the “potential for sexual attractions or romantic love toward people of all gender identities and biological sexes.” The document specifies that pansexuality “deliberately rejects the gender binary and derives its origin in the transgender movement.”
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There are also several terms that are associated with grievance politics, including “microaggression,” “micro-invalidation,” and even “sizeism,” which is “discrimination against people based upon their perceived (or self-perceived) body size or shape.”
But the NSA’s document makes it clear that the agency’s goal is not merely to advance liberalism, but to push “social justice&#8221; and &#8220;equity.” In fact, liberalism is said to obstruct more progressive political ends. A definition for “neo-liberalism” calls the ideology “a substantial subjugation and marginalization of policies and practices informed by the values of social justice and equity.”
Waltz said defining these woke terms shouldn’t be anywhere on the NSA’s priority list, especially with the national security risks facing the United States.
“It is disturbing that this is what the senior leadership of one of our most critical intelligence agencies is worried about when we literally have the world on fire,” Waltz said, highlighting the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel that went undiscovered by the intelligence community.
“Those holding the keys to power, those with their finger on the nuclear button or on incredibly powerful surveillance capabilities” are being “indoctrinated that our civilian institutions are inherently racist, are systemically misogynistic and have a colonialist past and therefore bad.”
“Our military is not focused on lethality. They&#8217;re focused on diversity and climate,” adding “that&#8217;s going to result in our enemies not fearing us and respecting us as they should.”
“Who wants to put their life on the line to defend that, and does that then lead to questions of whether those inherently flawed institutions should have true oversight over a very powerful intelligence agency in a very powerful military?” he went on to ask.
The document is marked as “unclassified,” a security designation that means the material is not classified but is not publicly releasable without authorization.
The NSA’s<a href="https://www.nsa.gov/Culture/diversity-equity-inclusion-accessibility/"> publicly available</a> diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility site states that “diversity and inclusion strategies inform our daily operations,” and that the agency is actively “cultivating relationships with external partners and leveraging those partnerships to increase the diversity of NSA’s hiring talent pool.”
The NSA also states that it strives to be the “model for diversity and equitable practices and outcomes throughout the Federal Government.”
President Biden issued an <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/executive-order-advancing-racial-equity-and-support-for-underserved-communities-through-the-federal-government/">executive order</a> aimed at creating a “whole-of-government equity agenda” on his first day in office. Biden issued another <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/06/25/executive-order-on-diversity-equity-inclusion-and-accessibility-in-the-federal-workforce/">executive order</a> in June 2021, which sought to establish “a coordinated Government-wide initiative to promote diversity and inclusion in the Federal workforce, expand its scope to specifically include equity and accessibility.”
The NSA did not respond to a request for comment on the document, which can be read in full below.
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